A Reformer Is One Who Sets Forth

There Have Always Been A Large Class Of Thinkers Who Deny That The World Makes Any Progress. They Say We Move In A Circle; That Evils Are Never Conquered, But Only Change Their Forms.

Childhood Itself Is Scarcely More Lovely Than A Cheerful, Kindly, Sunshiny Old Age.

None Speak Of The Bravery, The Might, Or The Intellect Of Jesus; But The Devil Is Always Imagined As A Being Of Acute Intellect, Political Cunning, And The Fiercest Courage. These Universal And Instinctive Tendencies Of The Human Mind Reveal Much.

In The First Place, The Government Ought Not To Be Invested With Power To Control The Affections, Any More Than The Consciences Of Citizens. A Man Has At Least As Good A Right To Choose His Wife, As He Has To Choose His Religion. His Taste May Not Suit His Neighbors; But So Long As His Deportment Is Correct, They Have No Right To Interfere With His Concerns.

Misfortune Is Never Mournful To The Soul That Accepts It; For Such Do Always See That Every Cloud Is An Angel's Face. Every Man Deems That He Has Precisely The Trials And Temptations Which Are The Hardest Of All Others For Him To Bear; But They Are So, Simply Because They Are The Very Ones He Most Needs.